Bill Orange, of Masterton, is the last founding member of a trust in the name of the Right Reverend Monsignor Nicholas Moore, 1887-1985. Mr Orange, an accountant, drafted the Monsignor Moore Education trust in 1971, as a way of supporting struggling parents to pay school fees for those who might otherwise struggle to pay them, Read more
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New bishop stays on ambulance duty
Friday, June 27th, 2014The next Anglican Bishop for Waiapu says he intends to continue working as a St John Ambulance officer when he takes up his new role in Napier later this year. Bishop-elect Andrew Hedge is currently the Vicar of Cambridge and regularly works shifts as an ambulance officer. Last Sunday he Anglican church announced that bishop-elect Read more
Sight of moon means start of Ramadan
Friday, June 27th, 2014The Federation of Islamic Associations of New Zealand (Fianz) estimates more than two-thirds will be taking part in the fast, which is expected to start on Sunday or Monday. Muslims in New Zealand will this year be fasting just 11 hours during Ramadan while their counterparts in the Northern Hemisphere will be going without food Read more
Local MP says hold off speculating about stabbing at school
Friday, June 27th, 2014
Mangere MP Su’a William Sio is asking that people hold off from speculation about the circumstances of the stabbing that occurred at the Pacific Christian School in South Auckland. On Tuesday an 11-year-old boy was stabbed during a fight at the school. He is in a critical but stable condition in the Starship hospital. Police Read more
If boat people arrived in NZ would would we do?
Friday, June 27th, 2014
The New Zealand Government has not ruled out the possibility transferring any boat people reaching it shores to detention centres in third countries. It has rejected of the recommendation made by the United Nations Human Rights Council to rule out the transfer of asylum seekers to detention centers in third countries. This is one of Read more
NZ Bishops urge Sudan to remove apostasy provision
Friday, June 27th, 2014
The Catholic bishops of New Zealand have strongly urged the government of Sudan to remove the charge of apostasy from its penal code in order to align the code with its Constitution and international commitments. They did this in a letter to the Sudanese ambassador to New Zealand His Excellency Mr Abd Al Rahim Al Siddig Read more
The haircut saga – Human rights crusader or just disobedient?
Tuesday, June 24th, 2014On Monday a judicial review of the suspension of Lucan Battison by St John’s College Hasting took place in the in the High Court at Wellington. Battison, a pupil at the College, has refused to get a haircut, after being told to do so by the school. The lawyer representing the St John’s College Hastings Read more
NZ a ‘destination country’ for sex trafficking
Tuesday, June 24th, 2014New Zealand is a destination country for foreign men and women subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking, a US State Department report has claimed. The department’s 2014 Trafficking in Persons Report has also labelled New Zealand as a source country for children subjected to sex trafficking within the country. “A small number of girls Read more
Archbishop to rule on Ward’s church
Tuesday, June 24th, 2014The Archbishop of Wellington will decide if the condemned St Peter Chanel Catholic Church in Ward is completely demolished or partially salvaged. The decision is expected next month ahead of the first anniversary of the Grassmere earthquake. The small red-brick church, built in 1923, was damaged in the 6.6 earthquake which caused cracks in its Read more
Planner recommends commissioners give BP the green light
Tuesday, June 24th, 2014
A noisy protest by pupils, parents and supporters of the St Mark’s Catholic School in Pakuranga, Auckland has fallen on at least one set of deaf ears. An Auckland Council planner, Scott Cheng, is recommending commissioners give the green light to the BP oil company’s request to build next to the school, but with conditions. Read more